What If Tinder Showed Your IQ?

http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/what-if-tinder-showed-your-iq

Genetic Engineering is going to make society more efficient overall. Higher IQ people would start with the work suitable for them, the lower IQ people would start with the work suitable for them. When higher IQ people are stuck in jobs where IQ does not make a difference, they are wasting their time and society has to make do without them. When low IQ people do jobs that they are not good at, they are wasting everyone's time.

The only matter is who benefits most from this efficiency and to what ends the excess wealth is used. Right now, most of the excess wealth is lost through all sorts of government inefficiency and intervention. Everyone loses but the less money one has the more one is affected. In general, the larger the state, the more the suffering. Of course, low IQ person is statistically expected to make less. But they would still be better off, and if you think of compound economic growth as exponential, it's much better than words can make it sound.

In a world with autocratic government (think Hunger Games), IQ and other resources merely become pawns in a win-lose game where people scramble over each other just to survive. This is stark contrast to a free market, where the games tends to be win-win.(Smart businesses will just see demand for intelligence enhancing tech and innovate.) There is much fear about how genetic engineering being one of these pawns, and this fear sounds well-justified, historically and empirically . Except that the fear is not actually directed towards genetic engineering, but government power, violence and the zero-sum games they create.

It is not genetic engineering or any tech that can sabotage society, it is government intervention and its acceptance by society. 

Since we have a mixed economy at the moment, I'd say the results are probably going to be midway between terrifying and spectacular.

And of course, overall IQ may rise.